The Board has granted service connection for the Veteran's right shoulder degenerative arthritis as secondary to his service-connected left upper back disability.
The deciding factor: The current right shoulder condition is proximately due to the service-connected left upper back disability, and thus service connection is established.
- Claimed conditions
- right shoulder degenerative arthritis
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 21, 2022
- Citation
- A22025963
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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